[ad_1] June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist who broke barriers as a Black woman by heading New York City’s Department of Mental Health and Retardation Services under three mayors, died on Sunday in the Bronx. She was 99. Her daughter, Rachel Christmas Derrick, said she died in a hospital of heart failure. As a city commissioner,… Continue reading June Jackson Christmas, Pioneering Psychiatrist, Dies at 99
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Jeanne Hoff, Pioneering Transgender Psychiatrist, Dies at 85
[ad_1] In December 1977, Dr. Jeanne Hoff, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, invited a television crew into her Manhattan home. The next day, they would accompany her to the operating room for her gender-affirming surgery. “Becoming Jeanne: A Search for Sexual Identity,” the resulting documentary about Dr. Hoff’s experience, was shown the next spring on NBC, with… Continue reading Jeanne Hoff, Pioneering Transgender Psychiatrist, Dies at 85